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Again. on the left side of your screen in covington, kentucky, the bridge behind president biden leads from kentucky to se cinc cincinnati, ohio, in which bipartisanship is being celebrated. it is democratic president joe biden, republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in his home state across the river, of course, in ohio, that is a largely republican state with a governor who is republican and outgoing or former senator who helped negotiate this bipartisan infrastructure bill. this isn't a celebration of what can happen if parties work together is on the left side. on the right side...

But the deals that mccarthy cut to get to try to get the votes, some of those more modern members weren't aligned with mccarthy and say they won't support those concessions if there's another speaker candidate. you can't just come up with another candidate -- there's no consensus candidate like paul ryan was, when mccarthy stepped aside and ryan succeeded boehner. there are more than four votes that could subtle any one speaker's bid, and there's a lot of questions ahead. >> congressman, knowing all of that, what does this mean for the next two years of this republican majority? >> look, what ...

That comes down, maybe getting most democrats to support a speak r or some democrats and getting most republicans to support a speaker candidate. just getting 218 votes for somebody, that's something that congressman don bacon who you heard suggesting that's an area that is only on first base at the moment. maybe they'll get all the way to home plate if and when kevin mccarthy is unable to get the 218 votes to become speaker. anderson, the members acknowledge it is a very difficult scenario to see play out because it would require the two sides to get behind one person who they believe could e...

Earned it, but those in her party want to take it away. how is this anything other than a trolling operation? you could easily argue that nancy pelosi is this villain for him he uses as a foil. how is that not what you and some republicans might be doing here? >> we have been working on this for six months and reform the rules of the house. i will tell you, there are members on both sides and they are so committed to row forming the rules and get the institution working again, this is not a ploy. this is seizing the opportunity of a new speaker candidate who can embrace the reforms to get the ...

They seemeded to have forgotten what happened to them in the 2006 midterms when there was a cover-up of the mark foley page scandal. a lot of them obviously weren't in congress then but you would think they were politically aware. they seem to be unaware of the larger moment in american history where you have got all these sexual abuse revelations, starting back in the penn state case and the joe paterno team. more recently michigan state. this seems like an untenable thing for jordan particularly as a speaker candidate, one of the democratic groups going after one of his fellow ohioans they'r...